Mozilla will announce in a few hours (here the note) the release of Firefox 115. With the bad habits, for the worse, that we are going to see how most of the goodies remain with Windows and some macOS, it is good to see how new features are included that are intended for Linux users. They are not tweaks to the interface, nor are they something that will greatly improve the user experience, but they do bring us up to date, or at least bring us closer.
La last month update it came with WebTransport by default, and Firefox 115 enables hardware video decoding for Linux users using an Intel GPU. What you have next is the rest of the News list that have come along with this version.
What's new in Firefox 115
- We can now move payment methods that we have saved in Chrome-based browsers to Firefox.
- The tab manager dropdown menu now includes close buttons, so we can close tabs more quickly.
- The user interface for importing data from other browsers has been revamped and simplified.
- Users without a platform that supports H264 video decoding can use the Cisco OpenH264 plugin for playback.
- Undo and redo are now available in the Password fields.
- On Linux, middle-clicking the new tab button will open the xclipboard content in the new tab. If the content of the xclipboard is a URL, that URL will be opened, any other text will be opened with the default search provider.
- For users with a theme built into Firefox Colorways, the theme will be automatically migrated to the same theme hosted on addons.mozilla.org for Firefox profiles that have automatic add-on updates disabled. This will allow users to keep their Colorways theme when they are later removed from the Firefox installation files.
- Some Firefox users may encounter a message in the extensions panel stating that their add-ons are not allowed on the currently open site. Mozilla has introduced a new back-end feature to only allow certain Mozilla-monitored extensions to run on specific websites for various reasons, including security concerns.
- The built-in editor now behaves similarly to other browsers with 'contenteditable' and 'designMode' when splitting a node, for example by hitting Enter to split a paragraph, and also when joining two nodes, for example by typing Backspace at the beginning of a node. a paragraph to join the paragraph and the previous one. When a node is split, the built-in editor creates a new node after the original instead of before, that is, it creates the right node instead of the left. Similarly, when two nodes are joined, the built-in editor removes the last node and moves its children to the end of the previous node instead of removing the previous node and moving its children to the beginning of the next node.
- WebRTC application developers can now specify a target in media milliseconds for the jitter buffer. Changing the target value allows applications to control the balance between playback delay and the risk of missing audio or video playback in private browsing due to network fluctuation.
- "Change array for copy" provides additional methods on `Array.prototype` and `TypedArray.prototype` to allow changes to the array by returning a new copy of the array with the change.
- The property is now supported animation-composition, which allows you to declaratively define the compound operation used when multiple animations simultaneously affect the same property.
- Added function URL.canParse()] to quickly and easily check if URLs are valid and parsable.
- IndexedDB now also supports private browsing without memory limits thanks to encrypted storage on disk.
- Compatibility conditions are now supported in @import CSS import rules.
- In web development, Mozilla relies on third-party libraries that may not interest us while debugging. These can be ignored. Ignoring them means that the breakpoints will not be hit and will be skipped during the step. We can now choose to Hide Ignored Fonts in the source tree of the Developer Tools.
- New new devtools.f12_enabled option that can be used to prevent accidental use of the F12 key, which opens the DevTools toolbox.
- Information about company-specific bug fixes and policy updates is now available in the Firefox 115 for Enterprise Release Notes.
- Windows Magnifier now follows the text cursor correctly when the Firefox title bar is visible.
- Windows users with low-end Wi-Fi/USB drivers and OS geolocation disabled can now approve geolocation on a case-by-case basis without causing system-wide network instability.
- Security fixes.
Now available from your server
And soon in your official website. It will also update its snap package, which is the default in Ubuntu, the package from its own repository, which includes distributions like KDE neon by default, and the flatpak package. It will arrive in the official repositories of the different Linux distributions later, from a few hours to a few days, depending on your update philosophy.